The Girls

desire

• I noticed their hair first, long and uncombed… I knew they were different from everyone else in the park.

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• I visited the magazine with the regularity of a penitent… locking the bathroom door with breathless, ill pleasure.

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• Suzanne wielded her Swinger camera like a weapon. Goading men to drop their jeans… The boys pretended to believe her.

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belonging

• That was part of being a girl—you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy.

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• It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other.

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self-and-identity

• That was the difference between me and the black-haired girl—her face answered all its own questions. I didn't want to…

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